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Today, 89 million people in the U.S. will watch 1.2 billion online videos. By 2016, online video viewers are expected to double to 1.5 billion. Naturally, companies are looking for a way to monetize this influx of activity. The New York Times recently announced plans to allow non-subscribers to...

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Vdio, the online video service founded by Skype co-founder Janus Friis, is finally emerging from stealth mode. The company just launched a new homepage, which touts a private beta test, and comes with a few surprises: Vdio is getting ready to launch in the U.K. as well as in the...

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Whenever you ask a friend to suggest a good TV show, they often just bellow praise for The Wire, Breaking Bad or My Little Pony -- not useful if your tastes are a little more diverse. That's why major players Time Warner and Vudu have signed up Jinni's taste...

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In a press releasing highlighting upcoming apps for the Philips Smart TV platform, TP Vision revealed that YouTube movie rentals will be available later this year in a number of European regions. Interestingly, though, the company (which manufactures Philips TV internationally) also hints that rentals could potentially expand to...

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So here’s the good news: There are more movies available online than ever before. And the bad news: There are also more movie services than ever. What that means for consumers is a hugely fragmented experience, where they never know where one movie is available for purchase or rental, or...

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Tvinci, an Israel-based “Over-the-Top” (OTT) platform, has started expanding its service to the rest of the world. Today it is announcing a partnership with MediaCorp, Singapore’s leading media company, in a move that will see its OTT platform power the lifestyle service Toggle, set for release in Q1 2013. With...

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It's a lonely world when you've no storefronts to call your own. Shortly after Target decided it best to halt the sales of Amazon's Kindle products, it's being reported that Walmart is following suit. A quote obtained by Reuters suggests that Wally World's bigwigs won't be carrying Amazon tablets...

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Vudu, the digital Ultraviolet movie retail and rental store service owned by Walmart, is releasing a full version of its disc-to-digital software today, which is now available on Macs. The disc-to-digital program basically allows you to spend a small fee to grab the digital version of the DVD or...

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Walmart has confirmed its plans to launch a DVD/Blu-ray conversion service that will let customers bring their existing discs into Walmart stores and convert them to digital files to be streamed from the cloud. America’s largest home entertainment retailer’s new service will be powered by video-streaming service Vudu. Walmart VP...

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We were intrigued by Roku's Streaming Stick dongle when we saw it back at CES, and today the company has announced that the device will be shipping this October for $99.99. The Streaming Stick is essentially a Roku box that fits in the palm of your hand: it connects...

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Modern Blu-ray players also make full-featured media streamers so in addition to Panasonic's four new Blu-ray players for 2013, there are two new boxes with Viera Connect (Netflix, HuluPlus, Amazon Instant Video, Vudu, CinemaNow and YouTube) sans optical disc drives. The 2D DMP-BD79 Blu-ray player is the only one...

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Streaming media players are no joke. In fact, cable has become the joke. Just take a look at this “Shit Silicon Valley Says” video — the first joke is, “are you cancelling cable?” But at the moment, it’s still difficult to do so. You can’t get everything that you could...

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. Former Apple TV UI designer and “Professional Hobbyist, AppleTV” Michael Margolis has been vocal on Twitter about the new Apple TV redesign. He says that Steve Jobs himself tossed out those designs 5 years ago. He adds, “Now there is nobody to say ‘no’ to bad design.” . The...

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Redbox’s long-awaited streaming video service is almost here, thanks to a partnership with Verizon that was announced in July. I lucked out and got an invite to the service, which was launched in beta last month, and have played around with it a bit. Here’s what you need to know...

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Looking at data just released by IHS iSuppli, Netflix was able to take the top spot from Apple for online movie marketshare during 2011. With Apple experiencing a huge decline from 60.8 percent of the market the year before, to 32.3 percent during 2011, Netflix came out on top for...

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Amazon is holding a press event in Los Angeles on Thursday, in which it’s likely to announce new versions of its Kindle tablets. You know, now that the Kindle Fire is all sold out. There have even been some leaks about what that product will look like, and the fact...

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VOD service Claro Video is coming to Mexico and other countries, FayerWayer reports. The announcement was made by America Movil’s mobile arm Telcel during the presentation of its 4G/LTE network plans in Mexico. “We will have [Claro Video] in all other countries [where we operate],” said Telcel’s director of Added...

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Following coming under a bit of heat for their report on the iPad running “significantly hotter than” iPad 2, Consumer Reports has just published a review of the new Apple TV ahead of its full comprehensive testing. While the review couldn’t help praise the refreshed set-top box’s 1080p video...

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The living room's been something like a holy grail for electronics manufacturers for decades. It's the place where we spend hours every day sitting in front of our TVs, passively flipping channels and watching ads. Even as our smartphones and tablets vie for our attention, TV dominates: Americans still...

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The original Boxee Box, though much-hyped, failed to make a splash two years ago when it debuted for $299. So Boxee is trying again — and this time, it’s aiming to evolve the concept of a DVR entirely with an ambitious cloud DVR with no storage limits. Today Boxee...

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Among the many, many things that LG is unveiling at CES this year is the curious addition of a sound bar with built-in video streaming. That still sounds like a contradiction of purpose to us, but the Smart Sound Bar, also known as the NB3730A, is more fascinating once...

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Have a Roku streaming device? Cool. Now have a movie or TV show you want to watch, but don’t know whether it’s on Netflix, or Amazon, or Hulu? Well, I’ve got good news for you, as Roku has just launched a universal search feature, which will help you discover content...

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Roku finally slapped a price and retail date on its new Streaming media stick today, along with a few other announcements. The Roku Stick will debut at the top of the company’s high-end streaming devices, with a $100 price tag, and be available for sale online in October. The...

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Evidence is slowly emerging that Apple could be working with operator partners for the introduction of its upcoming iTV product. Last week, Bloomberg reported that Apple may get access to programs through partnerships with carriers such as AT&T and Verizon. And Tuesday the Globe and Mail reported that Apple is...

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Coming months after the feature's introduction on Android and PCs, Vudu has updated the iOS version of its app with the ability to download movies for viewing offline. Unlike the Android version, this feature is not restricted to tablets however, with downloads of your Vudu / Ultraviolet collection on...

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Netgear has just released the NTV200S NeoTV Pro, a combination media streaming box and WiDi receiver. Netgear has been selling individual streaming boxes like the NeoTV 200 and Push2TV WiDi adapters for quite some time now, but the NeoTV Pro is the company's first to combine the two. On...

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Procter & Gamble experienced a "digital emergency" over its employees' timewasting use of Netflix, Pandora, YouTube and Facebook at work, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. The company was moving more of its management systems online, but found something holding up the digitization process: the computers were going really, really slowly....

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You can't deny one of Microsoft's main goals with its revamped 360 dashboard update was to enhance the box's entertainment attributes, and now the Redmond crowd has flipped the live switch on two more vid-focused apps. Crackle and CinemaNow are joining the likes of Vudu and UFC as part...